Picture-mount.



P. E. HOUSH.

PICTURE MOUNT. APPLICATION IILED FEB. 21, 1912.

1,080,219. Patented Dec. 2, 1913.

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FRANK E. HOUSE, OF WINTHROP, MASSACHUSETTS.

PICTURE-MOUNT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 2,1913.

Application fi1ed=February 21, 1912. Serial No. 679,145.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK E. HoUsH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Winthrop, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Picture-Mounts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a combination picture mount and calendar or advertising pad. Heretofore such mounts have been provided consisting of a base sheet and a mat, with a calendar or the like suitably placed to be read, and provision of some sort for hanging the picture mount in a certain position. But such a mount was useful only for one kind of picture, i. 6. either a picture wider than it was high or higher than it was wide, which I shall term herein respectively horizontal or vertical pictures, photographs or post cards, and dealers had to keep a stock of both kinds of mounts.

My improved mount is provided with hanging means on two of its edges, so that it can be used for suspending pictures with the length of same in either of a vertical or horizontal plane, and is, moreover, provided with a pivoted and rotatable calendar base, so that the calendar may be turned to a proper position whichever way the mount may be hung, in accordance with the nature of the picture which it carries.

In the figures, Figure 1 shows a front view of a mount made according to my invention; Fig. 2 is a back view of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

My new mount is made up of two sheets of sheet material, preferably stifi paper or cardboard, the front sheetAbeing apertured at a to form a sight for the picture and having pivotally mounted upon it by an eyelet b or other suitable pivot device, a platform B upon which may be secured a calendar block or other reading matter. The back sheet D has a multiplicity of perforations 6, b for receiving the head of a tack or other suspending device. It will be observed that these provide means for hanging the mount with either the long or short side of the picture up, so that if the base of the picture is the short side the mount may be hung by perforation b and if the base of the picture is the long side by perforation b. The perforations b, b are preferably as shown, having a large port-ion to pass the head of a tack and a side slot, so that the shank of the tack may be received therein and the head of the tack received between the sheets A, D. The two sheets A, D, are secured together leaving the edges adjacent to the sight in sheet A unfastened, so that a picture may be inserted in the well known way. The perforations b b are not visible in front, nor the tack by which the mount is hung and the pivot 19 is also covered on both sides. Such a construction is especially useful, since amateur photographers and the like may change the picture from time to time and use the mount and its calendar for pictures of either kind, as hereinbefore mentioned.

I claim:

1. A picture mount comprising a front sheet provided with a sight aperture, a pivoted calendar platform to one side of the sight aperture, said platform being adapted for rotation to a desired position relative to the position of the sight aperture, and a back sheet provided with supporting means on two of its adjacent edges.

2. A picture mount comprising an oblong front sheet provided with a sight aperture, a pivoted calendar platform to one side of the sight aperture, said platform being adapted for rotation to a desired position relative to the position of the sight aperture, and an oblong back sheet provided with supporting means on two of its adjacent edges.

3. A picture mount comprising a from sheet provided with an oblong sight aperture, a pivoted calendar platform to one side of the sight aperture, said platform being adapted for rotation to a desired position relative to the position of said sight aperture, and a back sheet provided with supporting means on two of its adjacent edges.

Signed by me at Boston, Mass, this 20th day of February 1912.

FRANK E. HOUSH.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH T. BRENNAN, OLIVER MITCHELL.

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